Michael Jaffe
Past President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, 2012–13 — a claim the register cannot confirm and which puts him alongside Daniel Kotin in Chicago among the bar-leadership listings here. His register entry publishes no email. The firm's rideshare page is the most careful in this batch about not stating limits it cannot support.
The bar record
We read Michael Jaffe in the New York State Unified Court System’s Attorney Detail Report. Only the shaded green row is generated by the court; the rows marked attorney-supplied were filed by him.
New York vouches for one line of this. The court system’s own disclaimer states that the Detail Report contains information provided by the attorney, except registration status, which is generated from the Office of Court Administration’s database. It further states that an attorney’s good standing and any information regarding disciplinary actions must be confirmed with the appropriate Appellate Division Department. So “currently registered” is the court’s own fact. “No record of discipline” is displayed by the court system but comes with an instruction to verify it elsewhere — and we haven’t. That is why the discipline figure above is a dash and not a tick.
And it tells you which office to ask. Michael Jaffe was admitted through the 2nd Department, so that is the department a reader would need to write to. Of the twenty-one lawyers on our New York pages, fifteen were admitted through the Second and six through the First. No other register we use sends you somewhere else to finish the check — and none of the others tells you where.
What the record shows
The firm’s rideshare page describes the app-status structure and says that different insurance coverage may apply without printing a single policy limit. In a batch where most pages lead with dollar figures — and where those figures do not always agree with each other — declining to state them is a choice worth noticing.Verified
His OCA record carries no email address. Two of the twenty listings in this batch are like that; it is an attorney-supplied field.Verified
He says he served as President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association in 2012–13 and co-chairs its Labor Law Committee. No register on this site records bar-association office, so none of it is checked here.Verified
What the firm says
He says he was admitted in New Jersey in December 1994 and New York in January 1995 — the register confirms the second — and is admitted in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.Reported
He says he took his J.D. at Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1994 and a B.A. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1991, joined the firm as a summer clerk during law school and was made partner in 2000.Reported
He says he has been recognised as a Best Lawyer, a top personal injury attorney on Avvo and a Super Lawyer since 2011, and speaks French.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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